Astérix

Asterix is 50, and to celebrate, El Pais has given access to four pages in PDF format for free!

I apologize to my friends who do not read enough Spanish to enjoy the sample from El Pais; look for something in English, I'm sure it's out there.

If you're not familiar with Asterix, take a look here, here or here for a little info in English.

Nosferatu

Girl-child ordered this movie up from Netflix and we've just watched it.

It is a fantastic movie. It is beyond delightfully tacky and overdone. And the music is inexplicably inappropriate most of the time.

I think the primary reason I find it so fabulous is because it is so obviously one of the main inspirations for Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein. I mean, I could recite Young Frankenstein lines into this (silent) movie and they fit perfectly.

Girl-child thinks it's hilarious that the only movie I have memorized is Young Frankenstein.

She should talk. She knows every line in Lilo and Stitch.